Ineed asap will give ! 1 why did the ming chinese choose to isolate themselves from the rest of the world? they believed they had achieved the height of civilization and it was better to not associate with barbarians. they thought disease and other philosophical ideas would endanger their civilization. they decided foreign influences would cause the lower classes to become discontent and rebel. they chose to close down factories and craftsmen's shops because they had become very wealthy.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

1) the andrew carniage's purchase and renovation of skibo castle have been very good and auspicious for the local people of dornoch firth, scotland because this is a turistic attraction for many people who would want to know the castle, the local people would take advantage about this.

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